Good point, it looks like they have a decent path forward and hopefully they take good advantage of the new nodes and the available room for refining the uarch.

Good point, it looks like they have a decent path forward and hopefully they take good advantage of the new nodes and the available room for refining the uarch. Socket compatibility would be wise, I hope at least the Zen+ I'm hoping they soon get back to competing aggressively at high-end HPC too, perhaps they could spend some area on Zen+ on better FP SIMD, or even flexible width SIMD (though the latter would be more realistic on the 7nm successor).